Southeast Asia
GMA News - As the death toll from tropical storm "Sendong" (Washi) continued to approach the 1000 mark, authorities on Wednesday estimated the damage to property caused by the storm as nearing P1 billion. |
Malaysia Star - By A. LETCHUMANAN Selangor PAS Commissioner Dr Abdul Rani Osman, who revealed this, claimed that the duo had not responded to party leaders who wanted to meet them for discussions. |
Malaysia Star - By NIK NAIZI HUSIN and JOSEPH KAOS PETALING JAYA: The social networking sites are all abuzz over the alleged same-sex marriage involving Malaysian student Ariff Alfian Rosli and an Irish man in Dublin. |
Inquirer.net - A former president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) on Tuesday petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the impending impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona in the Senate. |
Bangkok Post - Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha and Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung oppose any move to amend Section 112 of the criminal code, the lese majeste law. |
Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: DAP assemblyman for Bukit Gasing Edward Lee Poh Lin, 64, died of colon cancer at the University Malaya Medical Centre early yesterday morning. |
Inquirer.net - By Carmela Reyes-Estrope, Tonette Orejas CITY OF MALOLOS—A Bulacan judge issued a warrant for the arrest of retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. |
Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airports Holding Bhd (MAHB) and partner GMR Group aim to develop the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) in Maldives into a global standard airport by 2014. |
Tempo - By RIO ROSE RIBAYA Manila, Philippines - The leadership in the House of Representatives welcomed Monday former Anak Mindanao party-list Rep. Mujiv Hataman as the new appointed officer in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). |
Malaysia Star - By BARADAN KUPPUSAMY The use of indelible ink, among other reforms announced by the Election Commission on Monday, will go a long way in assuring people that the next general election will be above board. |
Bangkok Post - The 8th meeting of the Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee finally began today in Phnom Penh after a series of clashes this year. |
Bangkok Post - The Yingluck government should hold a referendum on whether the present constitution should be amended. The ruling Pheu Thai Party came under fire when some of its key members sought to amend certain sections of the present constitution, ... |
Straits Times - SMRT has suspended a bus driver after a passenger he was ferrying fell and hit her head, leaving her in a coma. On Tuesday, its staff visited Madam Ding Weibo, 54. |
Bangkok Post - Celebrating Christmas in a Buddhist country like Thailand requires advance planning, flexibility and a good imagination. However, even though Thais do not take a holiday _ Christmas would have to be the most enthusiastically celebrated festive event of ... |
New York Daily News - BY Braden Goyette The punk music fans rounded up by Indonesian cops last week are resisting attempts to “re-educate” them. The 65 youths are being subjected to military drills to improve their moral character in conservative Aceh province. |
Stuff.co.nz - A former junior New Zealand basketballer accused of being involved in a fight in Singapore last year that left a man with a broken nose has jumped bail, according to his family. |
The Malaysian Insider - KOTA KINABALU, Dec 20 - Police have identified three Brunei tourists who were killed in an express bus crash here earlier today, and are continuing efforts to determine the identities of another three fatalities. |
Malaysia Star - SINGAPORE: A group of 23 Singaporeans stranded at the Endau Rompin National Park in Johor after flood waters cut off access to their location were rescued by Malaysian authorities via helicopter. |
Catholic Culture - Malaysia's leading prelate has criticized the government's surprise decision to appoint as head of a convent school a person not nominated by the school's directors. |
World
Daily Mail - By Mail Foreign Service and Katie Silver They laid him out in a glass coffin, his head resting on a pillow and his body wrapped in a red cloth. |
The Independent - Watching someone with similar impairments doing things you might not think possible creates a great ... Physics was never my favourite subject. |
NPR (blog) - by Eyder Peralta A day after the Iraqi government issued a warrant for his arrest, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said in a nationally televised news conference that he did not order death squads to assassinate government officials. |
The Independent - Watching someone with similar impairments doing things you might not think possible creates a great ... Physics was never my favourite subject. |
Chicago Sun-Times - By ANDREW TAYLOR AP December 20, 2011 9:48AM House Speaker John Boehner at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, as Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. |
Malaysia Star - By Sui-Lee Wee WUKAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese officials offered concessions on Tuesday to a village that has rebelled against Communist Party authorities to try to get residents to call off a march to government offices, as a new protest flared ... |
Financial Times - Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new prime minister who takes office today, is off to a good start. Not just his own country's prospects but those of the eurozone as a whole depend on him continuing to perform. |
Arab News - By AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand: A New Zealand air force cargo plane flew to Antarctica on Wednesday to drop sea pumps and hull patches to a leaking Russian fishing vessel, stuck in the frigid waters after hitting sea ice last week. |
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - By Ron Kampeas · December 20, 2011 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Vaclav Havel was a friend of the Jews and of Israel, but prominent Jews who mourned his passing this week said the Czech leader's greatest legacy was his universal message of freedom. |
Houston Chronicle (blog) - Anyone who has traveled in Europe may have experienced surprise at finding the pews of its beautiful, ancient churches occupied only by tourists. |
Straits Times - VIENNA (AFP) - Iran has invited the United Nations atomic watchdog to visit the country, but it is unclear whether inspectors would have access to sites where covert nuclear weapons activity is suspected, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. |
MiamiHerald.com - By ALAN BOSWELL NAIROBI, Kenya -- A major rebel leader was killed by South Sudan government forces, officials said Tuesday, providing a possible boost to the fledgling East African government and US ally. |
Arab News - By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) concluded its two-day summit in Riyadh on Tuesday with the bloc's leaders vowing to support the historic initiative of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King ... |
Malaysia Star - By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA (Reuters) - Joseph Kabila was sworn in Tuesday for a new term as president of Democratic Republic of Congo following his victory in a disputed election, promising to improve the business climate and rebuild infrastructure. |
New York Times (blog) - By DAVID CARR Rizwan Tabassum/Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesThe funeral for the investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 1. Seven journalists were killed in Pakistan, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. |
Los Angeles Times - The wife of the Russian oil rig's captain says towing the Kolskaya platform through icy waters was a suicidal mission. Thirty-nine workers are missing. |
Financial Times - By Hugh Carnegy in Paris and Daniel Dombey in Istanbul France has warned Turkey against any commercial reprisals in an escalating dispute over a French bid to make it a crime to deny that a genocide of Armenians took place in the final days of the ... |
Inquirer.net - Libyan militia members man a checkpoint in the capital Tripoli on December 6, 2011. Libya's government gave its firm support to a two-week deadline for militias that led the uprising which toppled Moamer Kadhafi to quit Tripoli, backing up a threat ... |
GMA News - Canada has shortened the procedures needed for foreign caregivers to obtain permanent resident status and has enacted several measures to protect the caregivers from abusive employers. |
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